Summary

While a lot of options have been presented, it is best to use a plugin that matches where the host is stored. If you are using physical machines, ServiceNow or a custom plugin may be appropriate, whereas if you are using a cloud provider, their plugin is likely the best to use. The plugins allow you to tailor inventories and sources as needed.

This chapter covered inventories, inventory plugins, and inventory sources, which are pivotal to running jobs in the Automation controller. The other requirement for job templates is EEs.

The next chapter will cover the creation of custom EEs for use in job templates.